Cheshire, F. Practical Bee-Keeping. Being plain instructions to the Amateur for the successful management of the Honey Bee.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Upcott Gill. [1878] pp.117 with text illustrations throughout plus adverts for beekeeping equipment and books. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and motif, nr. fine with gentle sunning to spine. Loosely inserted an original copy of Upcott Gill’s 4-page pre-publication leaflet and subscription form announcing the release of Frank Cheshire’s ‘Bees and Bee-Keeping’ in the form of a monthly serial ‘so as to place it within reach of every bee-keeper’. (Harding 327)
The rewritten, enlarged and last edition of this practical work. Cheshire’s ‘Bees and Bee-keeping’ was advertised by Upcott Gill as ‘one of the most important contributions to the literature of Bee Culture that has yet been made’. In the end, the work ran to two volumes and it is still very much sought after today.
£125.00 [ref: 71180]

Cheshire, F. Practical Bee-Keeping: Being plain instructions to the Amateur for the successful management of the Honey Bee.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Upcott Gill. [1878] pp.117 with text figs. throughout plus adverts for beekeeping equipment and books. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature, dated 1955, and neat address stamp to ffep. A little spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and motif in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. (Harding 327)
The rewritten, enlarged edition of this practical work. Cheshire’s ‘Bees and Bee-keeping’ was advertised by Upcott Gill as ‘one of the most important contributions to the literature of Bee Culture that has yet been made’. In the end, the work ran to two volumes and it is still very much sought after today.
£45.00 [ref: 71775]

Cheshire, F.R. Bees & Bee-Keeping ; Scientific and Practical. Vol. II - Practical. A Complete Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Floral Relations, and Profitable Management of the Hive Bee.
1st. Ed. Pub. Upcott Gill. 1888 pp.[vi], 652 with b/w. illus., in text plus 5-pages of adverts. 8vo. Hardback. With the signature of Stanley Baldwin, dated July 29th, 1892 to ffep. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block, only very occ. internally, mark to fore-edge of p.453 o/w. contents fine. Original decorated boards nr fine - more recently protected with clear laminate covering with snag to rear panel.
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), was Conservative Prime Minister on three occasions.
£125.00 [ref: 71239]

Cheshire, F.R. Bees & Bee-keeping. Scientific and Practical. A Complete Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Floral Relations, and the Profitable Management of the Hive Bee. Vol. I - Scientific.
Pub. L. Upcott Gill. 1886 pp.viii, 336 with 8 b/w. plates & text figs. 8vo. Hardback. Small bookseller’s label to ffep. Internal hinges a little tender. Some spotting to ends, prelims. and occasionally internally o/w. contents fine. Half morocco leather over marbled boards in good condition with a little loss to spine. Harding 388.
Still highly sought after for its excellent content.
£29.50 [ref: 68488]

Cheshire, F.R. Bees and Bee-keeping. A Complete Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Floral Relations, and Profitable Management of the Hive Bee. Vol. I - Scientific and Vol. II - Practical.
Pub. “The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart”. [1886-1888] Two vol. set with b/w. plates & text figs. 8vo. Hardbacks. Signature to ffep. of both vols. (one dated 1915, the other 1923). Contents very clean and nr. fine. Cords a little stretched in Vol. II and front internal hinge tender. Original decorated green cloth boards vg. to thor. vg.
Still highly sought after for its excellent content.
£65.00 [ref: 71152]

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Cotton, W.C. A Manual for New Zealand Bee Keepers.
Ltd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Newrick. 1976 pp.112. Bound attractively in almond coloured bookcloth. Copy no. 792 of 800. Nr. fine hardback.
This book was first published in 1848 and is now very difficult to find in original format. The copy on offer here is part of a limited edition of 800 faithful facsimiles which were attractively bound in Kivar bookcloth.
£25.00 [ref: 71176]

Cotton, W.C. My Bee Book.
1st. Ed. Pub. Rivington. 1842 With the usual irregular pagination as noted in Harding's 'Bibliography of Bee Books'. pp.lvi, 2 leaves, then pages 60-368 (pp.72-98 have the same no. on both left and right hand pages). With illustrations by Whimper. 8vo. Hardback. Early bookplate of Robert H. Wood, Brinscall Hall (dated 1861 and featuring a skep) and signature of Theodore Lean in two places. Occasional early pencil annotation. Very minor spotting, o/w., contents fine. Spine skilfully relaid and original brown cloth boards in thor. vg. condition.
‘This is in the nature of a scrapbook, containing Cotton’s letters to cottagers, bee verses and mottoes, and reprints of parts of books by Southerne, Moore, Thorley, Sydserff, etc., and also the rules of the Oxford Apiarian Society, and details of Cotton’s plans to introduce bees to New Zealand. Cotton, who was a clergyman, adopted a very moral tone in advocating the use of a puff ball narcotic to spare the lives of the bees.’ (Harding 238).
£375.00 [ref: 62914]

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Cotton, W.C. My Bee Book.
1st. Ed. Pub. Rivington 1842 With the usual irregular pagination as noted in Harding's 'Bibliography of Bee Books'. pp.lvi, 2 leaves, then pages 60-368 (pp.72-98 have the same no. on both left and right hand pages) With illustrations by Whimper. 8vo. Hardback. Neat repair to blank fore-margin of half-title and ffep., small chip to fore-margin of title and last page. Occ. light spotting throughout o/w. contents fine. Original spine skilfully relaid on more recent cloth boards, sympathetic to the original binding, in nr. fine condition.
‘This is in the nature of a scrapbook, containing Cotton’s letters to cottagers, bee verses and mottoes, and reprints of parts of books by Southerne, Moore, Thorley, Sydserff, etc., and also the rules of the Oxford Apiarian Society, and details of Cotton’s plans to introduce bees to New Zealand. Cotton, who was a clergyman, adopted a very moral tone in advocating the use of a puff ball narcotic to spare the lives of the bees.’ (Harding 238).
£195.00 [ref: 71188]

Cotton, William Charles. My Bee Book.
Facs. Ed. Pub. Kingsmead. 1970 pp.lii, 56-402 with b/w. woodcut illus. 8vo. with bookplate of John Kinross and two ownership inscriptions to endpapers. Nr. fine hardback
A facsimile of Cotton’s highly desirable book published in 1842.
£9.50 [ref: 70658]

Cowan, T.W. British Bee-Keeper’s Guide Book. To the Management of Bees in Movable-comb Hives, and the use of the Extractor.
14th. Ed. Pub. Houlston & Sons. [1896] pp.xii, 176 with b/w. photos. & illus. throughout plus 12-pages of adverts for beekeeping supplies. Small 8vo. Softback. Binding held by one of three cords and an old tape repair. Some spotting to contents. Rear cover repaired with brown paper.
'It is largely through the influence of this little guide that the form of British bee-keeping practice took on its well-known characteristics' (R.O.B. Manley). Ron Brown wrote of Thomas W. Cowan (1840-1926) that he had ‘an outstanding record of service to British Beekeeping!’.
£15.00 [ref: 70961]